Last
Friday, Ann Curry, on NBC Nightly News, reported that drought-stricken
Georgia�s Lake Lanier, that provides water for five million people,
will not last more than 79 more days at current water consumption.
�What does Lake Lanier need?� she asked the reporter standing by the
lake. �Lots of rain�about four months of rain,� the reporter said.

If
Georgia stands in the cross-hairs of a water crisis today at 9,363,000
people, what will be its fate be by 2050 when its predicted population
reaches 16,966,000 people?

What
factor facing the United States stands immune from public, political
and religious discussion? Short answer: runaway overpopulation as
we add three million people to the USA annually!

With
signs pointing to horrific future consequences, our presidential leaders,
citizens and religious elite continue on a path of population growth
without responsibility, without limits and without end. They continue
in denial, refutation and negation.

Let�s
see where that path leads us. Worldwatch Institute, September 13,
2007 reported:

Consumption
of energy and many other critical resources is consistently breaking
records, disrupting the climate and undermining life on the planet,
according to the latest Worldwatch Institute report, Vital Signs
2007-2008.

The 44 trends tracked in Vital Signs illustrate the urgent need to
check consumption of energy and other resources that are contributing
to the climate crisis.

According
to Erik Assadourian, Vital Signs Project Director, �The world is running
out of time to head off catastrophic climate change, and it is essential
that Europe and the rest of the international community bring pressure
to bear on U.S. policy makers to address the crisis.�

This
summer, the European Union became a showcase for environmental devastation
including tragic fires in Greece and the Canary Islands, dramatic
floods in England and heat waves across the Continent.

With
a global population of 6.7 billion and growing by 77 million annually,
humanity degrades every ecosystem beyond its capacity to sustain life:

In
2006, the world used 3.9 billion tons of oil. World oil consumption
burns 84 million barrels daily. Fossil fuel usage in 2005 produced
7.6 billion tons of carbon emissions, and atmospheric concentrations
of carbon dioxide reached 380 parts per million.

More
wood was removed from forests in 2005 than ever before.

Steel
production grew 10 percent to a record 1.24 billion tons in 2006,
while primary aluminum output increased to a record 33 million tons.

Meat
production hit a record 276 million tons (43 kg per person) in 2006.

Meat
consumption is one of several factors driving soybean demand. Rapid
South American expansion of soybean plantations could displace 22
million hectares of tropical forest and savanna in the next 20 years.

The
rise in global seafood consumption comes even as many fish species
become scarcer.

The
warming climate is undermining biodiversity by accelerating habitat
loss, altering the timing of animal migrations and plant flowerings,
and shifting some species towards the poles and to higher altitudes.

The
oceans have absorbed about half of the carbon dioxide emitted by humans
in the last 200 years. Climate change is altering fish migration routes,
pushing up sea levels, intensifying coastal erosion, raising ocean
acidity, and interfering with currents that move vital nutrients upward
from the deep sea.

2,500
plants and animals in the continental United States suffer extinction
every decade via habitat loss from human expansion.

Despite
a relatively calm hurricane season in the U.S. in 2006, the world
experienced more weather-related disasters than in any of the previous
three years. Nearly 100 million people were affected.

�The
only hope for reducing the world�s carbon emissions is for the U.S.
to begin reducing its emissions and cooperating with other nations
immediately,� said Assadourian.

Earlier
this year, Bush promised to decrease oil consumption by 20 percent
in the United States within ten years. �We�ll reduce oil consumption
by use of hybrid cars, conservation and ethanol,� he said.

He
failed to mention that via endless, unrelenting immigration, the U.S.
expects to add 30 million people by 2017. Most Americans fail to realize
this nation will add 100 million people within 35 years. What does
that mean? It means �full speed ahead� like the Titanic. Everything
we�re doing proves to be window dressing, cotton candy and pointless
unless we deal with population stability.

What
should our presidential candidates, religious leaders and average
citizens be promoting?

National
Population Policy whereby we balance our population to fit our
carrying capacity so that every American today and 100 years from
now enjoys a quality of life and reasonable standard of living
while living in a sustainable and viable civilization.

National
Carrying Capacity Policy whereby we define how many people can live
in each state with enough water, land and food.

National
Environmental Impact Policy whereby animals and plants maintain their
habitat in order to co-exist with humanity in a balance.

National
Water Policy whereby our human numbers remain in balance with available
water supplies so a crisis like Lake Lanier in Georgia can�t occur.

Promote
an International Population and Family Planning Policy to help overloaded
nations come to terms with and move toward stable populations. This
would prevent massive, unrelenting and unending immigration toward
viable countries.

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Why
an international program? For example, Bangladesh suffers 144 million
people in a landmass less than the size of Iowa. They expect to double
to 290 million people in 35 years! That�s like shoving all but 10
million of America�s 300 million into Iowa! No wonder they flee their
countries by the millions and run to Europe and the United States!

Again,
once we add 100 million people to the USA, nothing will save us from
our consequences. Our quality of life, standard of living, freedom,
fresh air, open spaces, cities, wildlife and every aspect of our children�s
lives will degraded as our numbers increase. This population crisis
proves the number one issue facing us in the 21st century, but our
leaders deny, hide from, pretend and run away from it like the plague.
Unfortunately, if we don�t deal with it; it will deal with us�rather
brutally.

Frosty
Wooldridge possesses a unique view of the world, cultures and families
in that he has bicycled around the globe 100,000 miles, on six continents
and six times across the United States in the past 30 years. His published
books include: "HANDBOOK FOR TOURING BICYCLISTS" ; �STRIKE THREE! TAKE
YOUR BASE�; �IMMIGRATION�S UNARMED INVASION: DEADLY CONSEQUENCES�; �MOTORCYCLE
ADVENTURE TO ALASKA: INTO THE WIND�A TEEN NOVEL�; �BICYCLING AROUND THE
WORLD: TIRE TRACKS FOR YOUR IMAGINATION�; �AN EXTREME ENCOUNTER: ANTARCTIA.�
His next book: �TILTING THE STATUE OF LIBERTY INTO A SWAMP.� He lives
in Denver, Colorado.